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[syn: holier-than-thou, pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sanctimonious \Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous\, a. [See Sanctimony.]
1. Possessing sanctimony; holy; sacred; saintly. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
2. Making a show of sanctity; affecting saintliness;
hypocritically devout or pious. "Like the sanctimonious
pirate." --Shak.
[1913 Webster] -- Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. --
Sanc`ti*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sanctimonious
adj 1: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening
sanctimonious smile" [syn: holier-than-thou,
pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical,
sanctimonious, self-righteous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanctimonious":
Pecksniffian, Quakerish, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, Victorian,
affected, canting, censorious, deceiving, demure, false, fanatical,
goody, goody-goody, hidebound, holier-than-thou, hypocritic,
hypocritical, insincere, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed,
mid-Victorian, narrow, oily, old-maidish, overdevout, overmodest,
overreligious, overrighteous, overzealous, pecksniffian, pharisaic,
pharisaical, pharisean, pietistic, pious, priggish, prim, prudish,
puritanical, sanctified, self-righteous, simon-pure, smug,
sniveling, snuffling, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy,
ultrareligious, unctuous, zealotic, zealous